Communitarian Darwinism

Social Darwinism is the principle that Natural Selection can be applied to the fields of sociology. Generally speaking i'd consider this to be correct, however as Kropotkin pointed out, the fittest does not necessarily imply the strongest.

I think the argument could be made that in this vein Kropotkin was right; in fact the fittest is usually characterized by a willingness and ability to collaborate with a community. Now of course, I disagree with essentially every political and economic conclusion he drew from that, but i think the point still stands that a society can only survive when it actually functions as an organic unit, or even more precisely, society can only survive if it is capable of advancing itself by its own self-contained means.

Such a thing inevitably requires a society to shun foreign disturbances. Not to seclude itself, but to allow for a selective civilizational cross-fertilization adapted to the unique sensibilities of a particular culture, without the baggage of unmitigated Xenophilia. Oswald Spengler said, however, those obsessed with racial purity will ironically lose it, because a society forced into ideological rigidity only does things out of coercion. The most effective remedy to this problem is the organization of society along the lines of labor, skill and profession which enables a self-sustaining culture simply on the virtue of the state drawing its legitimacy and institutions from what makes the state real, rather than relying on legalistic conceptions of the nation that a state is inevitably created to serve the interests of. The second component of this is the natural cultivation of a society that reveres its own heritage and culture and values and sees the preservation of such as an achievement within itself; how this might be accomplished, I go into detail on in the Haufenist Manifesto, but generally it is this type of civilization which is most successful. This does not mean there is no room for foreigners, but I cannot overstate the importance of maintaining a society that is steadfast in the continuous adaptation of its own ideals in accordance with a world that constantly reanimates itself.

I think that there derives the true meaning of Social Darwinism; not the nihilistic interpretation of the foreign world as something to achieve superiority to at all costs, nor is it the overwhelmingly immature view that the only reason a society or the individuals within it thrive (or acquire obscene wealth) simply out of an abstract concept of being "stronger", which inevitably leads to Faustian acceleration and the ego death of the society as a whole. Rather, Social Darwinism dictates that the culture and people as a whole, unified under a common destiny, is what should be classified as fit or unfit, and that a society organized in such a way that the state becomes a secondary product of the will of the collective of labor, skill and trade is what can truly be fit to survive natural selection, because this kind of organic state is capable of continuously adapting in a constant self-contained feedback loop that can survive within a vacuum because, as a national entity, the society dedicates its whole being to collaboration.